Fred Thompson

And this is for the primary

FRED THOMPSON!!!!!

Go Fred. I encourage all my readers from the right to head on over to writeinfred.com and read. Please do this in November. Give Fred some love.

No surprise here, but reporting on MSNBC. Amazing how the "knight in shining armor" the wingnuts were cheering for has done so poorly.

He just give a very long and rambling speech without saying one way or another, but indicators point to a Fred drop out in the near future.

It amazes me how disappointed the Republicans are that the NIE put a damper on their wet dream of a war with Iran:

Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a second opinion.

The National Intelligence Estimate, released last week, concludes Iran halted its weapons development program in 2003 and that the program remained frozen through at least the middle of this year. That reversed a key finding from a 2005 intelligence report, which said Iran was intently developing a nuclear bomb. An unclassified summary of the new report was released specifically to correct that impression.

In 2003 the NIE said Iran was not seeing nuclear weapons. In 2005 it said they were seeking nuclear weapons. Now it says they stopped seeking them in 2003. Now here is something that would have changed between 2003 and 2005 - they lost on of their intelligence people who was working on Iran and WMD. Who was that agent? Oh yeah - Valerie Plame, the person the administration exposed because her husband said the administrations claims of Iraq's nuclear ambitions were bogus.

The other amazing part is that when this new NIE came out, Bush came out and touted it as proof his restructuring of the intelligence communities worked. So these Republicans are going against Bush now? Are they trying to armchair quarterback our Commander in Chief into another war?

I guess they are listening to Fred Thompson, who recently said the NIE was "foolish". Of course he still is wondering how the "Soviet Union" will play into this. I guess we should trust Fred and his intelligence background. Remember that time there was a rogue Soviet sub commander wanting to defect  and Fred worked with the CIA to help make it possible? As an exclusive here on Intoxination, I have received a document of this work Fred did with the CIA.

Today's most viewed story on the Washington Post is this:

Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing.

Thompson selected the businessman, Philip Martin, to raise seed money for his White House bid. Martin is one of four campaign co-chairmen and the head of a group called the "first day founders." Campaign aides jokingly began to refer to Martin, who has been friends with Thompson since the early 1990s, as the head of "Thompson's Airforce."

Thompson's frequent flights aboard Martin's twin-engine Cessna 560 Citation have saved him more than $100,000, because until the law changed in September, campaign-finance rules allowed presidential candidates to reimburse private jet owners for just a fraction of the true cost of flights.

Martin entered a plea of guilty to the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana in 1979; the court withheld judgment pending completion of his probation. He was charged in 1983 with violating his probation and with multiple counts of felony bookmaking, cocaine trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded no contest to the cocaine-trafficking and conspiracy charges, which stemmed from a plan to sell $30,000 worth of the drug, and was continued on probation.

I am defiantly no supporter of Thompson, but I think this is a little crazy. Should we really be worried about something an adviser did a quarter century ago? One of the problems with this country is its tendency to hold on to past errors in judgement.

So what are we trying to get to; a country that only the perfect person can run for President, one with no ties to people with past convictions? If that is the case then I got a feeling we won't have anyone running. Then what happens if we find these "perfect" people? What next? Will we start judging them on traffic tickets, or perhaps a time they told their parent no?

People make mistakes and they go to jail to pay for their crimes. That is their retribution, but our stuck-up society forces people to pay for the rest of their lives, no matter how minor the crime.

By this very mentality George Washington should have never been President. After all, he was a traitor, along with the rest of the founding fathers, according to the British. It looks like the people who founded this country were a lot more forgiving than those who live in it today.

According to Politico, and the name should be of no shock:

Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations, Thompson advisers told The Politico.

Thompson, the "Law and Order" star and former U.S. senator from Tennessee, has been publicly coy, even as people close to him have been furiously preparing for a late entry into the wide-open contest.  But the advisers said Thompson dropped all pretenses on Tuesday afternoon during a conference call with more than 100 potential donors, each of whom was urged to raise about $50,000.

True it is the Politico. This is the same source that said Edwards was dropping out when Elizabeth's cancer returned. Their track record isn't that great.